ETHNO-CULTURAL APPROACH TO DESIGNING AN EXTRACURRICULAR WORK CONTENTS IN A UNIVERSITY AS A CONDITION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CRAFTS

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the analysis of the ethnocultural approach potential of education in the structure of training students-designers, in particular, when forming components of the students’ designing culture based on ethnic design in the educational process in higher educational institutions of a pedagogical profile. Particular attention is paid to teaching traditional arts and crafts in the process of extracurricular work, which is based on the study of the history of designer profession and the search for a selfexpression way. At present, pedagogical science is developing new forms and technologies for the formation of teacher’s professionalism, where the competencybased approach is adopted as the basic criterion for assessing the quality of education. This approach is based on the principle of continuous self-education which helps to increase the professional level of teachers-designers. The ethnocultural approach to designing the content of extracurricular activities aimed at preserving arts and crafts is a specially organized process of transferring, learning and mastering the characteristics of the spiritual and material culture of one's (native) and other ethnic groups; purposeful activities of a socio - cultural character, based on educational principles and aimed at achieving the education goals by means of practical mastery of crafts. Studying the national features of leather mosaics reveals the special peculiarity of this folk-art craft, professionally master the technology of manufacturing products in this technique.